By the Sun's Rays
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
- Year : 1914
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Western, Action
- Studio : Nestor Film Company
- Keyword : undercover, gold mine, bandit, silent film, outlaw gang, short film
- Director : Charles Giblyn, Tod Browning
- Cast : Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Richard Rosson, Eddie Lyons